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Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard

iTunes coincidence.

I'm on shuffle. This song comes on. It's The Twilight Sad's "Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard." Apparently the last time I listened to this song was exactly a year ago at 11:00 pm and a few seconds.

This band induces nostalgia, even on the first listen, so you could imagine how I feel. I'm relating to the name of the track more than ever right now.

I feel like I'm buried under six feet of school work, and last year right about this time I felt like I was in deep. I'd rant about why it's screwed up that our society forces people to do this to themselves, but I'll save that for someone who who has more time on their hands and their blog.

The best part of waking up

Thai hot sauce in the eye

What better way to start the day?

Music Makers

I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory last night. In it, Willy Wonka himself says, "we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." As I heard that I thought I might sample it some day.

Right now I'm listening to shuffle on my computer and coincidentally that quote popped up in Aphex Twin's "Music Makers."

Thoughts on Oddsac

I woke up with a hole in my tongue and the eerie feeling that I just hitched a ride through a wormhole.

I've been listening to Animal Collective for about five years now, and I've enjoyed almost everything they've put out since then; I can't say I've ever been to keen on Strawberry Jam, but that's another story. I was 16 the first time I heard their music. I was in the process of staying up all night, drawing. My friend put on Sung Tongs, and we listened to it three times in a row. Until then, I'd never heard a sound that mirrored my thoughts so well. It struck a chord in me to say the least.

Last night I watched Oddsac for the first time, and it certainly evoked the same feelings that Sung Tongs had that night when I was 16. It awoke dormant emotions. I found myself gazing, mouth open, head cocked, for pretty much the entire album. I feel as though Animal Collective and Danny Perez have found the key to blending human senses. As far as I can tell a "visual album" has never been created before. Oddsac, for me, was kind of a Zaireeka moment.

If you're going into Oddsac expecting a movie with a plot, you're going into Oddsac with the wrong idea. If you're going into Oddsac expecting a typical Animal Collective album, you've also got the wrong idea. Oddsac's audio harnesses the seamlessness of an Animal Collective live show. The music itself kind of sounds what happens when a group who produced Merriweather Post Pavillion goes back to their roots, brining back ideas from a Spirit They've Gone Spirit They've Vanished or a Hollinndagain. The film itself is challenging and stimulating. It warps reality and creates "simultaneous ecstasy and horror".

The DVD comes with a 50 page, hardcover book that made very little sense to me upon first flipping through its pages. I told myself, "it will make sense after I've seen the film." And it did. It makes so much sense now. The only criticism I have against this album is that it is not packaged with a warning label for epileptics or sufferers of frequent panic attacks .

All and all, my experience really blew the cap off of my expectations, and I really am still in awe. See this album.

Ears and Eyes

Two years ago I was in a band called Ears and Eyes. We stopped writing music and playing shows two years ago. Last spring we were asked to play a show in Normal, which we played. We decided it would be a good idea to play more shows. We played a show last night, 8/3/10, at The 7th Street Space in DeKalb with Hastas and Baby Sphinx Supreme Antiquities, which was awesome*. It was the fifth time me and Andrew played together in two years.

Here is a link to Trying to Capture Fire, Ears and Eyes' first and only album.

Packaging handmade by me and Andrew.

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*recorded by one of the Kyles from Hastas.

Rock Bottom

Kicked out of an ABBA cover band. Replaced by a drum machine.